Medical Translators
July 29, 2014 | Terry Sharrer

Canopy Medical Translator
For several years, DARPA and IBM attempted to create a two-way medical translator that would allow doctor and patient to communicate with each other in near-real time. The project did quite well with dialect recognition, but never really became a reliable tool. This piece describes several efforts from different companies that rely on icons, visual clues and set phrases allowing some degree of translation, much like the 1-10 face charts that indicate pain level. A video shows how Canopy Apps works. Meanwhile major hospitals spend millions of dollars annually on phone-in translators, in no small part due to liability issues. MORE
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